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A talk by Michael Berry

Michael Berry is Professor of Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies and Director of the East Asia Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of several books on Chinese film and literature, including Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers, A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film, Jia Zhangke’s Hometown Trilogy and Boiling the Sea: The Cinematic World of Hou Hsiao-hsien. Berry is currently completing a monograph that explores the United States as it has been imagined through Chinese film, literature, and popular culture, 1949-present. He is also the translator of numerous works of contemporary Chinese fiction, including novels by Yu Hua, Wang Anyi, Ye Zhaoyan and Chang Ta-chun. He has served on the jury for the Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), Fresh Wave Film Festival (Hong Kong), and the Dream of the Red Chamber Award (Hong Kong) and writes a weekly Chinese-language column for The Beijing News.